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Texas on the Potomac regularly shares with you the work of some of Hearst Newspapers’ best columnists. Today, we are pleased to share with you this commentary by San Antonio Express-News columnist O. Ricardo Pimentel. Last week, some of the Supreme Court justices, weighing whether banning gay marriage is unconstitutional, went to the well of …

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has told a group of Republicans that New York’s same-sex marriage law is “fine” with him because it is a state’s right to legislate on the issue.

“Our friends in New York six weeks ago passed a statute that said marriage can be between two people of the same sex. And you know what? That’s New York, and that’s their business, and that’s fine with me,” he said at forum last Friday sponsored by the Aspen Institute.

“That is their call,’’ he said. “If you believe in the 10th Amendment, stay out of their business.”